I’m excited to be working on a special issue focused on AR/VR/XR pedagogies for the Journal of Interactive Teaching and Pedagogy. Deadline was extended to December 13, 2019. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue: Extended Reality (XR) Pedagogies & Applications: Interactive & Immersive Educational Technologies Issue Editors:…
Visiting Scientist at U of Padua in December 2019
In December 2019, I am a Visiting Scientist at the University of Padua, where I am working with my colleagues there on two projects. The first, Visualizing Lovecraft, is an exciting return to my literary roots to explore the visualization of imagined and hybrid reality places in partnership with an…
DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online
As Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, one of the most rewarding things I do is facilitate juried online art exhibitions of interest to our community. My DAC colleague KathyRae Huffman is heading up our latest show, DIGITAL POWER: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online. We…
Spring 2020 Teaching
It is hard to believe the term is flying by so quickly, but Bookbagging will soon be upon us. I’ll be teaching the optional VMS Capstone and the ISS Capstone together, well as teaming up again with the illustrious Trudi Abel for the next stages of Digital Durham, our ongoing…
New Media Caucus Border Control presentation of Psychasthenia Studio
On Friday, September 20, 2019 I presented the work of Psychasthenia Studio at the New Media Caucus Border Control conference in Ann Arbor, MI. Great venue, great conversations. Very pleased to see many of my ACM SIGGRAPH collaborators as well as friends from the CAA/NMC world. I got to discuss…
Fall 2019 Teaching (and other activities)
Great news! I’ve been promoted to Full Research Professor! This semester I’m taking a break from teaching classes to focus on next steps for project work (Digital Durham, Visualizing Cities, Psychasthenia Studio, and a new project, Visualizing Lovecraft!). I’m also writing up some grant reports and getting ready to apply…
Venice, Padua, Utrecht, Krakow, Warsaw, Grinnell, Pittsburgh, and LA!
Summer 2019 was one of those summers where the timing worked out, but the sanity may have been in question. After teaching year 2 of the DAH Venice/Getty workshop, several of us headed to Padua for a Visualizing Cities Symposium where Cosimo Monteleone and I gave everyone a first glimpse…
Summer 2019 Teaching – DH in Lahore and Venice
In May 2019 Hannah Jacobs and I got to work with some faculty from Pakistan in partnership with colleagues at NCCU, organized by Matt Cook, who works in Postcolonial and South Asian Studies and was one of the co-organizers of the NCCU-Duke DH Fellows program sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.…
3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends
Great news – the CLIR report, 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends is now available! This came out of the Oklahoma symposium I participated in last year. It is exciting to think about how libraries and academic departments and programs can partner on this and other emerging…
Spring 2019 Teaching
For Spring 2019 my teaching consists of the ISS Capstone and a series of independent studies with graduate and undergrad students. I am also busy getting reading for year 2 of our summer institute on Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D (Geo)Spatial Networks and the followup on the V/AR-DHI…